Essays And PoemsRead Books Ltd, 2013 M07 8 - 180 pages Jones Very was an American poet and essayist associated with the American Transcendentalism movement. Here stands a wonderful collection on Very's essays and poetry. Essays include: Epic Poetry, Shakespeare and Hamlet. Poems include: To the Humming Bird, To the Fossil Flower, The Tree, Beauty, The New Birth, The Soldier, The Earth and many many more. |
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... seem almost without end, and they live on through life with as little reference to another state of being as we ourselves do in childhood. To minds in this state there was a remoteness in an event which had taken place one or two ...
... seem almost without end, and they live on through life with as little reference to another state of being as we ourselves do in childhood. To minds in this state there was a remoteness in an event which had taken place one or two ...
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... seem to have reached already another stage in its development, to have unfolded a new form of the heroic character, one which finds no paradise, nay, no heaven for itself in the creations of Milton, and for which the frowns of Dante's ...
... seem to have reached already another stage in its development, to have unfolded a new form of the heroic character, one which finds no paradise, nay, no heaven for itself in the creations of Milton, and for which the frowns of Dante's ...
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... seems to expand our thoughts with limitless existence, gives to our mental struggles a greatness they could not have before had. We each of us feel within our own bosoms a great, an immortal foe, which, if we have subdued, we may meet ...
... seems to expand our thoughts with limitless existence, gives to our mental struggles a greatness they could not have before had. We each of us feel within our own bosoms a great, an immortal foe, which, if we have subdued, we may meet ...
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... seems to be the reason why so many of the verbs employed by the Greeks to denote states of mind or of feeling, have a passive form, such as Φράζομαι, Οἴομαι, Aίσθάνομαι, Σxέπτομαι, 'Eπίσταμαι, Bούλομαι, &c. “Men's minds,” as Shakspeare ...
... seems to be the reason why so many of the verbs employed by the Greeks to denote states of mind or of feeling, have a passive form, such as Φράζομαι, Οἴομαι, Aίσθάνομαι, Σxέπτομαι, 'Eπίσταμαι, Bούλομαι, &c. “Men's minds,” as Shakspeare ...
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... seems to belong not to the character being more perfectly drawn, but to there being a more intense conception of individual human life, than perhaps in any other human composition.” The Sartor Resartus, Lamartine's Pilgrimage ...
... seems to belong not to the character being more perfectly drawn, but to there being a more intense conception of individual human life, than perhaps in any other human composition.” The Sartor Resartus, Lamartine's Pilgrimage ...
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